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‘It actually says, "A solid-hoofed perissodactyl ungulate mammal" which may not be any more satisfactory, but is certainly more thorough.’

‘The horse's single toe on each of its four feet is its most marked anatomical characteristic and makes it a perissodactyl or odd-toed ungulate.’

‘Most perissodactyl lineages went extinct in the late Eocene or Oligocene.’

‘Divergence estimates between extant perissodactyl species were closely correlated with calibration age - the divergence between rhinos and tapirs, for example, differed by an order of magnitude depending on the calibration applied.’